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SCP6-634 : Security Advisory - linux - CVE-2015-8543

Created: Dec 29, 2015    Updated: Dec 3, 2018
Resolved Date: Jan 22, 2016
Found In Version: 6.0.0.26
Fix Version: 6.0.0.28
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 6
Component/s: Kernel

Description

The networking implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.3.3, as used in Android and other products, does not validate protocol identifiers for certain protocol families, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL function pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly gain privileges by leveraging CLONE_NEWUSER support to execute a crafted SOCK_RAW application.<a href=http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html>CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference</a>

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2015-8543

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